Public health response to two imported, epidemiologically related cases of Lassa fever in the Netherlands (ex Sierra Leone), November 2019

On 20 November 2019, Lassa fever was diagnosed in a physician repatriated from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands. A second physician with suspected Lassa fever, repatriated a few days later from the same healthcare facility, was confirmed infected with Lassa virus on 21 November. Comprehensive contact...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles 2020-04, Vol.25 (15), p.6
Hauptverfasser:	Overbosch, Femke, de Boer, Mark, Veldkamp, Karin Ellen, Ellerbroek, Pauline, Bleeker-Rovers, Chantal P, Goorhuis, Bram, van Vugt, Michele, van der Eijk, Annemiek, Leenstra, Tjalling, Khargi, Martin, Ros, Jeanette, Brandwagt, Diederik, Haverkate, Manon, Swaan, Corien, Reusken, Chantal, Timen, Aura, Koopmans, Marion, van Dissel, Jaap
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use Contact Tracing Cross Infection Disease transmission Epidemiology Female Fever Health Personnel Humans Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional Infectious diseases Lassa Fever - diagnosis Lassa Fever - drug therapy Lassa virus - genetics Lassa virus - isolation & purification Male Netherlands Rapid Communication Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Sierra Leone Travel Whole Genome Sequencing
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Zusammenfassung:	On 20 November 2019, Lassa fever was diagnosed in a physician repatriated from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands. A second physician with suspected Lassa fever, repatriated a few days later from the same healthcare facility, was confirmed infected with Lassa virus on 21 November. Comprehensive contact monitoring involving high- and low-risk contacts proved to be feasible and follow-up of the contacts did not reveal any case of secondary transmission in the Netherlands.
ISSN:	1560-7917 1025-496X 1560-7917
DOI:	10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.15.2000265